[AGL] Sarah from Dry Creek

[Frances Morey]

Susi,
  I was trying to think of what year I had made my Portland to San Francisco trek. I thought of looking at the conch. I remembered that you had dated it, July 4, 2004. 
  Best,
  Frances

susan gilbert <ssg at efn.org> wrote:
  johnny used to take me there for beer and the jukebox, she never 
asked for id.
susi

On Apr 25, 2006, at 4:47 AM, Michael Eisenstadt wrote:

> My roommate and I remember the place well. Upstairs
> one could sit on the porch and watch the sunset. The
> only unpleasantness was going downstairs for another
> bottle. She was remarkably unpleasant in every regard,
> just buying a Bud from her was a hassle.
>
> In the photo, that is Bob Wade on the right. He is a
> famous artist type guy.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Harry Edwards" 
> To: "ghetto 2" 
> Cc: "ghetto survivors" 
> Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2006 1:58 PM
> Subject: [AGL] Sarah from Dry Creek
>
>
>
>
>>
>>
>> COMMENTARY: JOHN KELSO
>>
>> Happy birthday, Sarah: Now please don't throw me out
>>
>> Sunday, April 23, 2006
>> Sarah Ransom didn't look all THAT crusty Saturday afternoon when she
>> celebrated her 93rd birthday at the Dry Creek Cafe, the beer joint on
>> Mount Bonnell Road she used to toss people out of.
>>
>> With a closing-in-on-elegant look about her, she had on pearls and a
>> blue dress as she sucked on one Marlboro Lights 100 after another.
>>
>> Then she opened her mouth. "He wants to put my picture in the 
>> paper so
>> I'll have more boyfriends," Sarah said as a newspaper photographer 
>> took
>> her photo. "I've put more boyfriends in a coma."
>>
>> Boyfriends in a coma: We don't have a figure on how many of those 
>> there
>> were, although Jay "Buddy" Reynolds, a former state representative 
>> and
>> Sarah's son, says she's outlived four husbands.
>>
>> "You want to be next?" he asked. No thanks. I just shined my 
>> shoes, and
>> besides, I don't need the butt-whuppin'.
>>
>> Sarah used to be what is known around these parts as ornery.
>>
>> No longer, Buddy said.
>>
>> "Mom's been borderline diabetic for the last 10-15 years, and I think
>> all that cussing and everything else crept in then," he said. "We've
>> got her blood sugar under control now, and now she's just a
>> sweetheart."
>>
>> This was not always so with Sarah, who now lives with a caregiver 
>> over
>> in Lexington. Buddy brings her to the bar about once a month.
>>
>> She opened the Dry Creek Cafe in 1956. A sign on a small brown 
>> critter
>> taxidermied in the bar says, "I am a ring tail cat."
>>
>> Over the years many may have thought the sign should have been hung
>> around Sarah's neck.
>>
>> "A friend of mine was wearing some striped shorts, and her comment 
>> was,
>> 'What circus tent did you cut those out of?' " recalled David 
>> Daniels,
>> a longtime Dry Creek regular who drove all the way from 
>> Nelsonville for
>> the party.
>>
>> "One time, she tried to run Lance Armstrong off the road because he
>> tried to pass her on his bike," recalled Cody Hudson, a customer and
>> friend of Sarah's who sat at the table with her while she had her
>> picture taken.
>>
>> Nobody got much slack from Sarah.
>>
>> "She hated Willie Nelson 'cause she said he came out here and 
>> bothered
>> people with his guitar, and she told him to go put it in his truck,"
>> Cody added. "And he said, 'Ma'am, but it doesn't have any locks.' And
>> she said, 'Well then, you better go with it.' And she kicked my 
>> father
>> out of here in the '60s because he got too rowdy."
>>
>> They say Sarah has a heart of gold if she likes you. They also say
>> she'll eat your heart out if she doesn't. Not that most of the 
>> regulars
>> care. The canings she doles out are part, if not all, of her charm.
>>
>> "It seems like the more she abuses the public, the more they love 
>> her,"
>> said Bill Pacheco of Austin.
>>
>> "She was my landlady for four years, man," said James Owens, who used
>> to rent a house from Sarah at the bottom of the hill behind the bar.
>> "One time, I had a refrigerator that burned out. I said, 'All it 
>> has is
>> hot air.' And she said, 'Oh bull#$%^&; that refrigerator works fine.
>> All you got to do is open the door and let the hot air out.' "
>>
>> "One time, I was in here, and a young couple was playing pool,"
>> recalled Kay Hudson, who started coming into the bar in 1966. "The 
>> kid
>> leaned up against the jukebox, and she yelled, 'Get off that jukebox,
>> or I'll break your arm.' "
>>
>> Yes, she's a real charmer. And I imagine next year, everybody will be
>> back to tell more stories.
>>
>> "The other day, she asked me, 'Do you think I am going to live to be
>> 100?' " Buddy said. "And I said, 'Yeah, if you start exercising and
>> quit that smoking.' "
>>
>> Hey, if she works out and quits smoking, she may start throwing 
>> people
>> out again.
>


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